DC Special was a comic book anthology series from 1968 to 1971 and 1975 to 1977. DC Special was a theme-based title, focusing on stories from DC's Golden Age; at the end of its run it published a few original stories.
Some were special issues devoted to artists like Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert, strange sports stories, origins of super-villains, and stories of historical adventurers like Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers. Issue #4 featured many supernatural characters and was the first appearance of Abel, who later went on (along with his brother Cain) to become a major character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.